Dietrich Christoph Ihringk

Dietrich Christoph Ihringk, occasionally Dieterich Ihringk and Dietrich Ihring (born March 29, 1727 in Spangenberg , † May 22, 1781 in Nentershausen ) was a German lawyer, university professor, high Hesse-Kassel civil servant and freemason .

Family origin

Dietrich Christoph Ihringk was the son of the then second preacher in Spangenberg, later preacher, archdeacon , metropolitan and dean in Kassel as well as superintendent and metropolitan in Allendorf Nikolaus Wilhelm Ihring (1699–1757) and his first wife Catherine Elisabeth († 1747, 43 years old ), Daughter of the Mayor of Kassel Johannes Koppen . His paternal grandfather was Kassel's mayor of the same name, Diederich Christoph Ihringk . Since 1751 he was married to Christiane nee Porbeck, daughter of a Hesse-Kassel officer. He died in Nentershausen in the house of his son-in-law, the bailiff George Dieterich Braun .

Professional career

Academic occupation

After preparing for the pedagogy in Kassel, Ihringk began studying law at the University of Göttingen in 1742 , but switched to the University of Marburg in 1745 , where he obtained the degree of Lic. Iur. received and from then on taught the subjects of legal history, legal antiquities, institutions, German law and imperial history as a private lecturer . On February 20, 1749 he was appointed associate professor of law at the University of Marburg and was introduced to the office on March 14 of the same year. On August 11, 1749, the doctorate to Dr. iur. He taught the history of civil and canon law , institutions, criminal law , German imperial history as well as natural and international law .

On January 20, 1750, he said goodbye to become a full teacher of legal scholarship at the Nassau High School in Herborn for the summer semester of that year . However, he soon left the academic career path to join the Hesse-Kassel government.

Administrative lawyer

On May 10, 1752, Ihringk was appointed chancellery in Rinteln in the county of Schaumburg and on March 14, 1755, at the same time, chamber councilor of the county of Schaumburg was held by Hesse-Kassel. He moved to Kassel on November 13, 1760, as a councilor, and on February 29, 1772, he took over the management of the French Commission (later called the French Justice Chancellery ), which was responsible for the civil law administration of the Kassel Oberneustadt, built by Huguenot colonists, and the other French colonists in Lower Hesse was responsible and whose judicial appellate body was. He ended his civil service career as a senior appellate councilor in Kassel; his appointment took place on March 18, 1774.

Fonts (selection)

• De modo computandi fructus in seperatione feudi ab allodio, Diss. Lic. Marburg 1746. ( digitized version )
• Opusculum de indole remedii restitutionis, pro privatus ex transactione principis, pace Westphalica confirmata, experitur in privatum, & de foro instituendæ actionis ex Art. 15. § 13, Tabularum pacis Osnabrugensis. Marburg 1748.
• Num Expectativa in feuda imperii ius titulorum atque insignium tribuat. Herborn 1750.

Freemasonry

During his time in Marburg, Ihringk was accepted into the local Masonic lodge Zu den drey Löwen in 1746 ; in 1749 he was their master of the chair . Together with Hans Caspar von Knoblauch zu Hatzbach , he was one of the main founders of the first lodge in Kassel in 1766, which was called Zum Tale Josaphat . In 1771 he and other Freemason brothers set up the Lodge on the Crowned Lion in Kassel , which was subject to the Braunschweig prefecture of the Strict Observance . According to the type of teaching, Ihringk was made a Knight Templar in 1773 with the religious name Eques a sole oriente . From this Braunschweig branch, the independent Templar prefecture Castello-Chattorum emerged in 1775 , as its chairman he called himself “Vicepraefectus Templariensis”. In 1779, as director with Samuel Thomas von Soemmering, he was one of the founders of a circle of Gold and Rosicrucians in Kassel, to which Georg Forster - also a member of the Crowned Lion Lodge - joined.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Strieder : Basis for a Hessian history of scholars and writers. From the Reformation to the present day. Sixth volume. Cramer, Kassel 1786, pp. 340-357. ( Digitized version )
• General Manual of Freemasonry. Second completely revised edition of Lenning's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry. Second volume. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1865, p. 13. ( digitized version )
• Catalogus Professorum Academiae Marburgensis. The academic teachers at the Philipps University of Marburg from 1527 to 1910. Edited by Franz Gundlach. Elwert, Marburg 1927 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse 15, 1), p. 143.
• Stefan Redies: Freemasons, Knights Templar and Rosicrucians. On the history of the secret societies in Marburg in the 18th century. Tectum, Marburg 1998. ( partially digitized )

Web links

• Ihringk, Dietrich Christoph. Hessian biography. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).